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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: mhmail and aliases.
Summary: It doesn't seem to work.
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.152049.4879@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 91 15:20:49 GMT
Sender: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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 Well, I decided to try mhmail in place of ucb/Mail.  Checked the man pages
for the parameters.  Type in the command, to forward a copy of a small file
to a user on another system.

 The thing blew up in my face.  It seems that it doesn't read the personal
aliases file.  Then it tried to save the message in dead.letter, and that
failed too - it seems it doesn't read the $HOME environment variable, but
just used the current directory.

 So much for mhmail.  Back to using ucb/Mail.  But what a pain.  It means I
have to keep my aliases files in two different formats - one for MH, and
another for ucb/Mail.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940